"Ken Willmott" <ken### [at] rogerscom> wrote:

> Another strange thing... I noticed that there are many times when CPU
> utilization is alarmingly low. When I run version 3.6 I seen 100% utilization of
> one core. With 3.7b-35a it is bursty, and spends a lot of time running at 20%
> utilization. During those times, the load seems to be fairly evenly divided
> between the 4 cores.

If it is doing a lot of swapping, then the CPU usage may drop during swaps.

>
> The scene in question isn't anything special, just a landscape with a few
> isosurfaces and planes. The isosurfaces do contain a lot of functions, which
> create a lot of divergent surface details. To be perfectly clear, when I run the
> same code without radiosity everything is fine. Also I ran the same code on
> version 3.6 with radiosity turned on and everything is fine.
>
> Ideas?

I am really curious about how your radiosity settings are.  Also, what is the
peak memory usage without radiosity?

-Reactor

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